WASHINGTON – President Trump and Ukrainian President Voldy Miazelensky spoke on the phone Wednesday morning over a phone call that lasted about an hour.
“I just completed a very good call with Ukrainian President Zelensky,” the president wrote about the true society. “It lasted about an hour. Much of the discussion was based on a call with President Putin yesterday to coordinate both Russia and Ukraine in terms of demand and needs.”
The call comes the day after Trump’s long call with President Vladimir Putin, who said Putin has agreed to a 30-day ceasefire on Ukraine’s energy and infrastructure. This commitment was pushed out by the US and fell short of a complete ceasefire that agreed to Ukraine. Russia hours after Trump and Putin hung up the phone A series of drone strikes have begun It struck civilian areas and caused damage to hospitals.
National Security Advisors Mike Waltz and Secretary of State Marco Rubio said in a joint statement regarding Trump’s call with Putin: “We have fully explained Zelenkie and agreed that Trump and Zelenkie will share information closely with their defense staff as the battlefield situation has evolved.” The two Zelensky called for additional air defense systems, and Trump “consented to work with him to find something available, especially in Europe.”
Waltz and Rubio also said Trump suggested that the US could take ownership and operate the nuclear power plant in Ukraine. “American ownership of these plants will be the best protection for its infrastructure and support of Ukraine’s energy infrastructure,” their statement said.
Zelensky said on his part that he “has a positive, very substantial and candid conversation with President Donald Trump,” and that he “thank him for a good and productive start to the work of Jeddah’s Ukrainian and American teams.”
“Only a real halt to attacks on Russian civil infrastructure can demonstrate a true desire to end this war and bring peace closer,” Zelensky said Tuesday night.
Wednesday’s call is the first known conversation between Trump and Zelensky A miserable oval office meeting Last month, US officials told Ukrainians to leave the White House early.
Trump has repeatedly said that three years after Putin launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine, there is little evidence to support the claim, and that President Putin wants peace.
On Wednesday, Middle Eastern envoy Steve Witkov said Putin was operating in “integrity,” and Russian leaders issued an order after Trump directed Russian troops not to attack the Ukrainian military’s energy infrastructure.
Zelensky expressed skepticism about Putin’s idea of peace.
“We are skeptical of trusting Russians,” Zelensky said Tuesday. “There’s no trust in Putin, so I’m saying we need to understand how it works technically, so that we don’t just depend on their desires.
National Security Advisor Mike Waltz said the “technical team” will head to Saudi Arabia on Monday to try to break the conditions for the ceasefire.
“I spoke today with my Russian counterpart Yuri Ushakov about President Trump’s efforts to end the war in Ukraine,” Waltz wrote about X.
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